Now reduced to rubble, Tuesday morning was the last time Teri Wojcik saw her Holladay home of the past 51 years .
“What I have is a hole in the ground,” she said Friday.
Wojcik began cleaning her home recently after her husband, Leonard, a retired chemist at the University of Utah, passed away in January.
Video below shows what was left of the Holladay home after detonations:
Aftermath of holladay explosion
“Talked about cleaning it up and all that kind of stuff, but it wasn’t supposed to be catastrophic,” Wojcik said.
She started working in the basement, which she said was the domain of her husband. Because she knew chemicals were down in that area of the house, she called the health department for help.
That’s when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency got involved.
“…and then they called in the bomb squad because of the ether, and the bomb squad was checking around making sure everything was okay, and they found the dynamite,” recalled Wojcik. “They said it was sweating, which means that its really unstable. So they found 2 cases.”